by Robert Bouvier · Jean-Michel Garçon · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782950287403
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«Origine des quartiers de Marseille» is the historical essay by Robert Bouvier published by Jean-Michel Garçon in paperback (157 pages, in French).
A tour of Marseille's 111 official districts in which Robert Bouvier investigates the origin of their names and their evolution, with attention to Provençal, Greek and Latin etymology. The author frames each place name within the city's past, founded by the Greeks of Phocaea, and explains cases such as Plan-d'Aou and La Pointe-Rouge.
Published on May 24, 1988, it includes black-and-white photographs and postcards of Marseille. The author, born in 1941, was a journalist and had published Le parler marseillais in 1985.
Recommended for readers interested in urban history, toponymy and Provençal culture.
